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April 12, 2012 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 On Education
April 11, 2012 - Presented at the CASBO 2012 Annual Conference
March 26, 2012 - Presented to 4th District PTA on March 26, 2012.
March 26, 2012 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education
March 26, 2012 - Presented to Senate Select Committee on English Learners
March 22, 2012 - Reductions to school district budgets over the past five years have resulted in a sharp decline in the teacher workforce, with the number of full–time teachers decreasing by 32,000 since 2007–08. This has led to an increased focus on how the teacher layoff process works. This report gives an overview of the existing layoff process, evaluates how well the process is working, and makes recommendations for improving its effectiveness. For our analysis, we distributed a survey to all public school districts in the state asking them about their implementation of the teacher layoff process, used information provided by two state agencies--the California Department of Education (CDE) and the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH)--and included information from the California Teachers Association (CTA).
March 14, 2012 - Presented to the Joint Hearing of Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health and Human Services and Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance. Hon. Holly J. Mitchell and Hon. Susan Bonilla, Chairs
March 13, 2012 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance Hon. Susan Bonilla, Chair
March 7, 2012 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
March 6, 2012 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
March 1, 2012 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
March 1, 2012 - Presented to the California Charter Schools Conference.
February 29, 2012 - State budget update presented at California Charter Schools Conference.
February 22, 2012 - The Governor proposes to reduce funding for the CalWORKs program and state-subsidized child care programs. Under his budget plan, these programs would be reduced a total of $1.4 billion or about 20 percent in 2012-13 compared to what current law otherwise would require. These savings would be achieved by imposing stricter limits on which families are eligible to receive which types of services, as well as lowering state payments for CalWORKs recipients and child care providers. Additionally, the Governor’s proposal would make major changes to the way the state administers both welfare-to-work and child care services. In this report, we describe and analyze the Governor’s proposals related to the CalWORKs program and then turn to a similar discussion of the proposed changes to child care programs. We conclude by providing the Legislature with illustrative packages of ways to achieve savings in these two areas using different approaches than the Governor's.